Beaming mechanism for warping and beaming machines.



G. W. KUENNBTH. BEAMING MECHANISM FOR WARPING AND BEAMING MACHINES.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 22,1909. 1,099,653.

PatentedJune 9, 1914.

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' ATTORNEY COLUMBIA PLANDGRAPH CO.,WASHINUTON. D. c.

G. W. KUENNETH. BEAMING MECHANISM FOR WARPING AND BEAMING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 22,1909.

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COLUMBIA PLANODRAPH co, WASHINGTON, uc.

G. W. KUENNETH.

BEAMING MECHANISM FOR WARPING AND BEAMING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED .TULY 22,1909.

Patented June 9, 1914.

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GEORGE V7. KUENNEDH, 0'5 ."PA'IERSON, NEVZ JERSEY.

BEAMING IVIECHANISM FOR NARPING AND BEAMING MACHINES.

Specification 01 Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, it

Application filed July 22, 1909. Serial No. 508,948.

To all whom it may com-cm Be it known that l, Gnonon W. KUnN- nn-rI-r, a citizen of the United States, residing in Paterson, Passaic county, New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Beaming Mechanisms for Warping and Beaming Macl'iines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to warping and beaming machines and particularly to the beaming mechanism thereof.

The type of beaming mechanism to which my invention is applied is that employed in the beaming of warps for ribbons, or in} other instances where narrow warps are beamed, in which two or more beams or spools are rotated at once. lo a beaming mechanism of this nature it is desirable that each spool or beam be capable of being in- 2 dependently removed, so that a fresh. warp may be started thereon when the winding of one has been completed. lt is also important that the mechanism be so constructed 1 as to allow for setting each beam in operative position with put-sitive accuracy with re spect to the reel of the warping machine each time a removal of a beam and the re establishment thereof, or of counterpart, is effected; and that each beam, when in operative position, shall. run true in its bear- 1 ings and be as free as possible from undue vibration, as otherwise the necessary uniform disposition. of the threads of the warp will be prevented. It is important, further, that the beams be so arranged as to j economize space laterally of the machine,3 whereby to increase as much as possible the number of warps which :an be run through the machine at a. time.

My object, among others, is thereforeto provide a beaming mechanism by which: these results may be accomplished in a more perfect manner than heretofore, and in the use of which var'ous other aclxantages, involving a saving of space, time and skill, may follow. I

According to my invention, a plurahty. of beams are arranged with their axes sub stantially pa 'allel and each beam offset with 1 its relation to the adjoining beam in the direction of the length of their axes, and a common driving and supporting means receives the adjoining ends of said beams; having. therefore, only one driving and slipper-ting means for two beams, instead of two, one for each beam. l. am enabled to save space which may be utilized to accommodate more warps than would otherwise be possible, the sav mg" of space thus effected being obviouslv considerable in a warping machine having; the usual transverse dimension. Further the rotary part which directly carries the beam at one end of the latter is arranged in another rotary part so as to be adjustable axially of the beam in the latter, whereby such beam may be set at various positions laterally of the machine or removed for the pur imse of substituting another beam of different width.

in the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view in side elevation of the bean'ling, end of a warping and beaming, machine constructed in accordance with my improve ment; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the beaming; mechanism; Fig. 2*) is av view on av larger scale of one of the driving heads for the beams, showing the same partly in plan but mainly in horizontal section on the line w-ze in "t; Fig. is a vertical. sectional view of what is shown in Fig. 8 approxi- 1 mately on the line y -g in said figure. Fig.

5 shows in rear elevation the lower portion of what 1s shown in Figs. 3 and. 4-, that is,

the driving: shaft, the pinion splined thereon and the lower rear portion of the gear casing; 1 (5 is a vertical sectional view on the same scale as Figs. 3, e; and 5, showing the means for supporting the driving heads I and dead heads, and. showing one of said a dead heads thereon 1n side elevation; Fig. 7'

is a view partly in front elevation, and partly in vertical section, of what is shown in l 'ig. (l; 8 illustrates a modification of what is shown in Figs. (3 and T, Fig; 8 being a side elevation; and Fig. 9 is a fragmentary view in front elevation of what is shown in Fig. 8.

in the dmwiugs, a designates the frame of a warping and beaming machine and Z) its reel. lo the brackets c and d is journaled the driving shaft (1, carrying the fast and loose pulleys j, j and a pinion g, which meshes with the gear h (jonrnaled in bracket 0) for rotating the chain clutch whereby power is transmitted to a beam CAI supported in said clutch and in another bracket (not shown) at the opposite side of the machine, when the beaming of a warp 3 On the i for broad goods is to be effected.

shaft 6 is arranged a series of pinions is detachably held in place, so as to be capable of being raised and then dropped over a pinion j, as ill hereinafter appear.

Eeterring now to the dead-heads, 6 (Fig. 6) designates a two-armed bracket having c dindrical openings 7 in its upwardly eX- tending arms adapted to receive the dead- ;spindles 8 held for ad ustment axially in said openings by the screws 9, said deadspindles being bored at 10 to receive the trunnions of the beams. I will be understood that in the assembled arrangement of the parts, the dead-spindles S are axially alined with the corresponding face plates of 1 the driving-heads.

The driving-heads and dead-heads are designed to be ad ustable laterally ot the 1 machine, and for this purpose each is re- 1 ceived by the groove 11 in the upper part of each other and which are clamped together j by means of screws or the like m, two or 5 more of which may penetrate their contact mg bosses n. In bearings 0, disposed preterably in the same horizontal plane, are

- nel irons are penetrated by a bolt 14 carryjournaled the sleeve portions p of sprockets a saddle 12 which has a squared projection 13 pro ecting downwardly and fitting be tween the channel irons 7t. Each drivinghead (and each dead-head), its saddle 12,

g, the rear one of said sleeve portions havmg formed integrally therewith the gear 7*. l

of the guideway.

s is an endless sprocket chain extending around the sprockets 9. formed with an internal spline t. In each sleeve is introduced the shank u of a faceplate 0, said shanks being introduced from the opposite ends of the two sleeves, so that Each sleeve 2) is and the guideway formed by the two chaning a nut 15 which may be screwed up against washer l6 engaging the under side 17 designates the beams, each having one trunnion set in a tace plate 0) and the other in a dead-sp1ndle 8; 1t w1ll be understood that each beam has a notch to receive the one tace plate stands a one side, and the 1 other at the other side, of the bracket 1. The face plate has the usual central hole 10 to receive the trunnion and beam and the usual stud w interlocking the beam with the face-plate.

Into the free end of the shank u is tapped the threaded portion 3/ of a hand-screw 2 havinga smooth tapered free end 1,adapted to impinge against a key 2 movable radi ally in the shank and having a flattened portion received by the spline 2f. Ehis arrangement makes it possible, by first loosening the hand nut, then shifting the faceplate axially, and then tightening the hand is saved for the accommodation of beams nut so that the key is bound between the sleeve 7) and the tapered end of the hand nut, to adjust the face-plate in the sleeve longitudinally of its axis.

The two halves of the bracket or gear casing Z are formed with mating inwardly projecting flanges l which are continuous except at the back of the bracket, where a downwardly opening recess is formed for the reception of one of the pinions which may be slid along the shaft 0 so as to be received by the bracket Z, which, being then dropped over it, limits it against lateral movement therein (see Fig. 5); any subse quent lateral movementof the bracket will cause the pinion to move with the bracket. The pinion meshes with gear 1'. The bracket stud m on the face plate.

ln S and 9, the guidcway is formed by two parallel bars 18. l he saddle 19 to supportthe driving-head (or dead-head) has the forked portions 20 each adapted to receive a bar 18. 21 is a plate which may be clamped against the under side of the bars 18 by means of the bolt 22- and nut 23. The saddle 19 for each driving-head is preterably bifurcated, as shown in Fig. 9, so as to straddle the pinion j and cause it to partake of the lateral movement of the driving-head.

in view of the foregoing it will be seen. that, since a. single driving-head is employed in each instance for two beams, space which would otherwise not be utilized. Furthcr that, since it only requires the manipulation of nuts 15 to make it possible to shift the driving heads and dead-heads laterally, the mechanism may be quickly altered to receive beams having lengths different from those pre iously used or to change the positions of the beams relatively to the reel. Again, that adjustment of each beam relatively to the reel may be accomplished to a nicety by manipulating the hand screw .2, and when such adjustment has once been effected, the face-plates maintain a definite relation to the reel and serve as gages with reference to which each beam and its deadhead are set when a filled beam is to be taken out and a fresh one introduced; this last feature is of considerable value in that, once the face-plates have been adjusted in proper relation to the reel, the attention of a person more skilled in the operation of beaming than the attendant directly assigned to the machine, is not required in order to insure the proper disposition of the beams each time they are changed.

ilaving thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. The combination of a support, two beams arranged in offset relation to each other and with their axes substantially parallel, a unitary driving and supporting means for said beams movable on said support in the direction of the length of the axes of said beams and receiving the adjoining ends of the latter, and means affording support for the other ends of the beams, substantially as described.

The combination of a support, a rotary shaft, two beams arranged in offset relation to each other and with their axes substantially parallel. with the shaft, means fcr supporting the adjoining and relatively outer ends of the beams comprising a bracket receiving the adjoining ends of both beams and movable on said support substantially parallel with said shaft, and power transmitting mechanism movable with said bracket and operatively connecting the shaft with both beams, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a support, a rotary shaft, two beams arranged in offsetrelation to each other and with their axes substantially parallel. with the shaft, means for supporting the adjoining and relatively outer ends of the beams comprising a cas' ing receiving the adjoining ends of both beams and movable on said support substantially parallel with said shaft, and pi:wer-transmitting mechanism inelosed in and movable with said casing and operatively connecting the shaft with both beams, substantially as described.

t. A beaming mechanism for a beaming machine consisting, in combination. of the beam and means for supporting and effect ing rotation of said beam including a bracket, a. rotary structure journaled in said bracket and comprising a rotary supporti ng part alined with the beam and a rotary supported. part carried by the supporting part and also alined with and engaging the beam and adjustable axially thereof, and means, contained in said structure and protruding therefrom axially thereof, for securing the supported part to the supporting part in any position to which said supported part is axially adjustable.

5. A beaming mechanism for a beaming machine consist-ing, in combination, of the beam and means for supporting and effecting rotation of said beam including an in closing casing having opposed walls, a rotary structure comprising a supporting part jo-urnaled in said walls and held thereby against axial movement and a supported part carried by the supporting part and adjustable therein axially thereof and engaging the beam, and means, contained in said structure and protruding therefrom axially thereof, for securing the supported part to the supporting part in any position to which said supported part is axially adjustable.

(3. In a beaming mechanism,the combination of a beam, and means for supporting and effecting the rotation of said beam comprising a bracket, a rotary part journaled in said bracket in axial alincment with the beam and having an internal longitudinal spline, another part disposed and movable axially in said rotary part, a key radially movable in the axially movable part and engaging in the spline of said rotary part, and a screw tapped in the axially movable part and adapted to impinge against said key, substantially as described.

7. In a beaming mechanism, the combination of a beam, and means for supporting and effecting rotation of said beam comprising a bracket, a rotary part journaled in said bracket in axial alinemcnt with the beam, another part disposed and movable axially in said rotary part, a key radially movable in the axially movable part into engagement with said rotary part, and a key-operating device axially movable in said axially movable part.

8. In a beaming mechanism, the combination of a support, a bracket movable on the support, a shaft journaled in the support parallel with. the path of movement of the bracket on the support, said bracket having an opening opposite to the shaft and being movable toward and from the shaft, a pinion splined on the shaft and received by the opening in the bracket, a beam, and means for supporting one end of the beam and transmitting rotary motion to the beam comprising a gear revolubly arranged in said bracket and meshing with the pinion, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of July, 1909.

GEO. N. KUENNETH.

Witnesses JOHN W. S'rnwann, WM. D. BELL.

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